The next major Jewish action is on behalf of Uighurs

When Rayhan Asat attended a Passover seder last month, its contours seemed familiar and different at once — especially the tradition of leaving a...

New Yom Hashoah ritual aims to bridge Holocaust remembrance to a post-survivor world

By Shira Hanau Holocaust remembrance day programs in Jewish communities have stuck to a familiar form for decades, featuring Holocaust survivors sharing their stories followed...

With interest in health care careers soaring, Touro College sees pandemic’s impact

Sponsored By Larry Luxner Aaron Skaist, 26, has been around ambulances and medical personnel most of his life. His father established Toronto’s first Hatzoloh volunteer paramedic...

NY Times’ Bret Stephens is editing a new Jewish journal, starting with an...

By Asaf Shalev New York Times opinion columnist Bret Stephens has taken on a side gig as the editor of a new limited-run journal of...

Doug Emhoff hosts the White House’s first online Passover seder

There was virtual wine spilled and nostalgia for gefilte fish, as well as a serious message to consider the role of women in the...

(WATCH) Jewish War Veterans commemorates 125th anniversary

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYhZV_PqF2A It was 125 years ago to this day that 63 Civil War veterans gathered inside an opera house in New York City. They walked...

Julian Edelman invites Meyers Leonard to Shabbat dinner after the NBA player apologizes for...

Jewish NFL star Julian Edelman is offering Meyers Leonard an open hand after the NBA player apologized for saying the word “kike” during a...

Nikki Haley talks defending Israel, leaving Iran deal

(Nikki Haley by Gage Skidmore is licensed under CC BY-SA 2.0) Growing up in a small South Carolina town, where she and her family were...
Kosher Palate in Dallas decided to follow the governor’s lead in ending its requirement that customers be masked, then backtracked amid complaints.

One Dallas kosher grocer removed the mask rule. Then came the backlash.

By Shira Hanau When Texas Gov. Greg Abbott announced last week that he would end the state’s 9-month-old mask mandate, the proprietors of Kosher Palate...

Dallas Jewish conservatives plan ‘mask-burning’ party to celebrate end of Texas mandate

  By Andrew Lapin The political advocacy group Dallas Jewish Conservatives is celebrating Republican Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s lifting of his statewide mask mandate by holding...